Quechua Films

The life of the Peruvian poet Javier Heraud, who sadly passed at the young age of 21, told by his great-niece Tania through letters, poems and tales of shared times.

Father Lucho has just finished celebrating Mass in his humble parish in the city of Juliaca, Puno. Before the attendees leave, we see an Andean woman singing a cappella. The lyrics of her song speak of the victims of January 9, 2023, following a popular uprising led by Indigenous communities.

In Peru, Sergio García Locatelli visits both those places where human life is fragile and personal fate is uncertain and those where death reigns, places where everything is already lost, where appeal is not possible. A walk in search of the meaning of death that is actually a celebration of life and the living.

What seemed to be a trip back to my country at a time of irreversible changes, becomes a trip towards myself, between contradictions and questions about an identity.